• Simplifying the Church / Turing thesis

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 11:58:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have _no_ >>>>>>>>>>>>> coherent answer, not just one that can be known by not >>>>>>>>>>>>> computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same input >>>>>>>>>>>> as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the diagonal >>>>>>>>> because of the paradox that ensues when naively running the >>>>>>>>> classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a number >>>>>>>> that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you can >>>>>>>> use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 10:13:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively
    running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a
    number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt
    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 12:35:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language
    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 11:40:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language

    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)

    --
    hi, i'm nick!
    let's end war 🙃

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Fri May 8 14:01:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)


    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
    --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 9 11:10:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 08/05/2026 20:13, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string transformations
    to decide that DD does in fact halt

    You don't need much mental effort. Just run DD and see that it halts.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sat May 9 11:30:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the definition of Undecidability ia based on there being >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a coherent answer, just not one that can be determined by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject some >>>>>>>>>>>>> input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to put >>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the Nth >>>>>>>>>>>> digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively
    running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a
    number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have defined >>>>> it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across circle-
    free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined at the
    bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".
    --
    Mikko

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Sat May 9 07:13:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known?

    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. An >>>>>>>>>>>>>> universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and doesn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some input >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt.

    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor digit >>>>>>>>>>>> positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the
    diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing
    machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, defined
    at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".


    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    All self-reference "paradox" has never been deep
    unsolvable enigmas. It has always only been expressions
    of language with incoherent semantics.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Sun May 10 10:10:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
    On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct.

    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basic halting problem) involves a situations that have >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be known by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free machine... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have
    defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable numbers/ >>>>> A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self- reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent. Russell's
    paradox is simply an inconsistency.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 12:38:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/10/2026 12:27 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 05/10/2026 12:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X True(X) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic Incoherence, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the definition of Undecidability ia based on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being a coherent answer, just not one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if you >>>>>>>>>>>>> can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable
    numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is
    in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an
    uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no
    self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self-
    reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent. Russell's
    paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Another way to look at that quantification over finitely-many elements
    brings another one, is providing "increment" or "successor" as a
    natural fact of quantification instead of it being "defined" as
    what later gives a model of Peano (or Presburger) arithmetic,
    though that those are really only models of ordinals, since
    integers themselves have the integral moduli.


    So, one way to look at that is that Russell's "paradox" or really
    any account of quantification over what would make numbers
    illustrates that numbers make more numbers.


    That quantifying over numbers brings more numbers is just a fact
    that numbers have and that the action does - then for somebody
    like Mirimanoff who simply notes that after the "ordinary",
    i.e. as by the finite ordinals, is the "extra-ordinary',


    yet, "Russell's paradox" can start with an empty set and
    find another one, that contains itself.


    That is just like a can of soup that so totally contains
    itself that it has no outside boundary: semantically incoherent.


    So, you either make for freedom of expansion of comprehension,
    and numbers aren't paradoxical, or you don't.

    Many keep the account simple with "there's no infinite".
    Here though that's considered retro-finitism after
    something like "Russell's retro-thesis" and ignorant.



    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 13:06:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote:

    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation.

    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing machines. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> An universalTuring machine halts with some inputs and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language.

    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle-free >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But it is >>>>>>>>>>
    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable
    numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of knowledge
    that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??


    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)



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    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could
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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 14:12:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> circle-free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??

    No I'm saying that M/RR changes by any small movement of a pebble within
    the earth's makeup. There are millions of vehicles driving around on the earth's surface altering the calculation. What's there to pinpointing G?

    What's next, setting down an ice-cold coca-cola and marveling at
    different temperature readings upon it?
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    War up north
    War down south
    War War
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 15:17:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/10/2026 3:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language

    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic property
    of "halting" polcott??


    The DD input to the proof theoretic semantics halt
    prover HHH maps to recursive simulation.

    It does not matter what-the-fuck this finite string
    maps to for some other halt prover. HHH must reject
    DD as semantically incoherent.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    is true because "This sentence is not true" is semantically
    incoherent.


    (b) Semantically incoherent relations between finite strings.
    All self-reference "paradox" is merely (b)




    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun May 10 21:14:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/10/2026 1:12 PM, phoenix wrote:
    dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 1:40 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 10:35 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 12:13 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 9:58 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mathematicians and logicians don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> question.

    I needed to refer to unknown truth values >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> specifically
    because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can be known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> same input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reject some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total
    dovetailing machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you >>>>>>>>>>> have defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,. >>>>>>>>>
    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across >>>>>>>> circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper, >>>>>>>> defined at the bottom of p246


    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.


    i believe the i mentally applied a finite set of string
    transformations to decide that DD does in fact halt


    No one every simplified is down to its barest possible
    essence before me. Also the entire body of knowledge
    expressed in language can be encoded as finite relations
    between finite strings.

    This transforms all undecidability into
    (a) Outside of the body of knowledge that can be expressed in language >>>>
    we know DD halts polcott, so clearly not outside the body of
    knowledge that can be expressed in language


    No it is fucked up bullshit like:
    "This sentence is not true" (see b below)

    are you saying u don't understand that DD maps to the semantic
    property of "halting" polcott??

    No I'm saying
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    So you are a nym shift olcott thing? Are you? phoenix?

    that M/RR changes by any small movement of a pebble within
    the earth's makeup. There are millions of vehicles driving around on the earth's surface altering the calculation. What's there to pinpointing G?

    What's next, setting down an ice-cold coca-cola and marveling at
    different temperature readings upon it?


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Mon May 11 06:44:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 5/11/2026 2:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 10/05/2026 22:06, olcott wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 09/05/2026 15:13, olcott wrote:
    On 5/9/2026 3:30 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 08/05/2026 19:58, olcott wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 11:06 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/8/26 12:19 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 07/05/2026 12:00, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/7/26 12:18 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 06/05/2026 22:40, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/6/26 12:55 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 05/05/2026 12:28, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/5/26 1:25 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 04/05/2026 10:53, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 11:15 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 03/05/2026 12:09, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/3/26 12:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 02/05/2026 23:39, dart200 wrote:
    On 4/19/26 10:58 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/26 1:21 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 4/19/2026 3:59 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 18/04/2026 15:58, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Unknown truths are not elements of the body of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is a semantic tautology. Did you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that things that are unknown are known? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    No, but that measn that for some sentences X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True(X) is unknown and there
    is no method to find out.

    I don't know about philosophers but mathematicians >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logicians don't
    find it interesting if all you can say that all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> knowledge is knowable
    and everything else is not.


    Ross Finlayson, seemed to endlessly hedge on whether >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or not the truth value of the Goldbach conjecture was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known. He seemed to think that there are alternative >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytical frameworks that make the question of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
    or not its truth value is known an ambiguous question. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I needed to refer to unknown truth values specifically >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because all "undecidability" when construed correctly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> falls into one of two categories.
    (a) Semantic incoherence
    (b) Unknown truth values.


    Nope.

    Undecidability can not come from Semantic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Incoherence, as the definition of Undecidability ia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based on there being a coherent answer, just not one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that can be determined by a computation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    richard richard richard, that is in-correct. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    the undecidable problem turing described (as well as >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the basic halting problem) involves a situations that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have _no_ coherent answer, not just one that can be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> known by not computed ...

    Turing proved that there are universal Turing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machines. An universalTuring machine halts with some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs and doesn't halt with any other
    input. Every Turing machine that can be given the same >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input as an
    universal Turing machine either fails to accept some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> input with which
    that universal Turing machine halts or fails to reject >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some input with
    which that universal Turing macnie does not halt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    dunno what ur saying here.

    There is a way to find out if you can read.

    i can't read if u can't explain

    I can't explain the art of reading Common Language. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    turing hypothesized a diagonal computation that tries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to put the Nth digit from the Nth circle-free machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as the Nth digit on this diagonal across all circle- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> free machine...

    That is possible because there nither the machines nor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> digit positions
    are more numerous than natural numbers.

    yes, but then he argues it's impossible to compute the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> diagonal because of the paradox that ensues when naively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> running the classifier on the diagonal itself
    in
    It is impossible to have a Turing machine that computes a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> number that
    no Turing machine can compute. But you can compute it if >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you can use
    all (infinitely many) Turing machines.

    no you can't.

    Hard to test as I han't infinite many Turing machines. But >>>>>>>>>>>> it is

    u don't need to test it, you can't define a total dovetailing >>>>>>>>>>> machine to compute turing's diagonal,
    You should not say anything about the diagonal before you have >>>>>>>>>> defined
    it. Any use of the word before the definition is nonsense,.

    the H machine defined on p247 from his paper /on computable >>>>>>>>> numbers/
    A machine is not a "diagonal".


    the machine supposes to compute the "turing's diagonal" across
    circle- free sequences, otherwise labeled as β' in the paper,
    defined at the bottom of p246

    Anything that any machine can possibly compute can
    be computed by applying a finite set of finite string
    transformation rules to a finite set of finite strings.

    Everything else is simply out-of-scope for computation
    like making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

    That "everything else" includes many thigns that would be useful to
    know. In particular, whether some useful function can be computed is >>>>> in that "everything else".

    Like the truth value of: "This sentence is not true"
    that has no truth value.

    I don't think knowing the truth value of that would be useful. At least
    not for any important purpose.

    Knowing that all undecidability is merely semantic
    incoherence enables:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    to be reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.

    We don't have the knowledge that all undecidability is merely semantic incoherence, and can't know because we already know that there is undecidability that is not semantic incoherence. FOr example the
    axiom system

      ∀x (1⋅x = x)

    1.5 != 5 ∴ you are wrong and I am couinting the rest as gibberish

      ∀x (x⋅1 = x)
      ∀x∀y∀z (x⋅(y⋅z) = (x⋅y)⋅z)
      ∀x∃y (x⋅y = 1)
      ∀x∃y (y⋅x = 1)

    is useful for many purposes. But there are sentences like

      ∀x∃y (x⋅y = y⋅x)

    that are undecidable in that system. But there is notiong semantically incoherent in that example or similar ones.

    The truth about climate change and election fraud could
    be computed.

    Not without real world information.

    Yes, so what?
    All knowledge that can be expressed in language would
    include the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of every atom of your
    body relative to the exact center of the Earth every millisecond.
    Because this degree of detail is not physically implementable
    to implement my system we exclude most specific details. It
    is a system of general knowledge of about 200 petabytes.

    Of course you may postulate that
    the climate is immutable or that there was massimbe undetected fraud
    in the last or some earlier election but that is not what the word "knowledge" means.


    The key elements of election fraud are two things:
    (a) There was no actual evidence of election fraud
    that could have possibly changed the results.

    Even the Heritage Foundation agrees
    ---the authors of project 2025---
    Never any evidence of election fraud
    that could possibly change the results:

    1,620 total cases of election fraud in every
    election since 1981
    https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search

    If we could somehow magically increase these
    cases 15-fold to give Trump the votes he needed
    in the closest two states
    Trump was short 11,779 votes in Georgia
    Trump was short 10,457 votes in Arizona
    He would still lose the general election.

    (b) Trump exactly copied Hitler's "war propaganda
    system from chapter 6 of Hitler's Mein Kampf:

    "The receptive powers of the masses are very
    restricted, and their understanding is feeble.
    On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such
    being the case, all effective propaganda must
    be confined to a few bare essentials and those
    must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped
    formulas. These slogans should be persistently
    repeated until the very last individual has come
    to grasp the idea that has been put forward."


     LLMs could become reliable truth tellers.

    They don't became other than what they are made to be. IF truthfullness
    is not a design crterion it will not be a feature.

    All self-reference "paradox" is equivalent to the
    Liar Paradox and can be resolved by disallowing it
    like ZFC disallowed Russell's "Paradox".

    Whether something is a self-reference depends on interpretation. In an
    uninterpreted formal language there are no references and therefore no
    self-references, which is the simplest way to avoid paradoxes by self-
    reference.

    Even without any self-reference a theory can be inconsistent.


    Russell's paradox is simply an inconsistency.


    Likewise with all undecidability within the body
    of knowledge that can be expressed as language.

    No, per definition an inconcistency is decidable so it is not an undecidability.

    RP is merely the only instance of pathological
    self-reference (PSR) that was correctly rejected.

    Russell's paradox is not an undecidability.


    It was until ZFC refuted it.

    HP counter-example input is another instance of PSR.

    The halting problem counter-example is neither an undecidability nor an incconsistency.

    In computability theory and computational complexity
    theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem
    for which it is proved to be impossible to construct
    an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem

    And there is no self-reference in it. The halting

    Can a halt decider H provide a yes/no answer to the
    question: Does my input D halt? When the input D does
    the opposite of whatever answer that the halt decider
    H returns?

    problem counter-example is simply a Turing machine. A Truring machine
    cannot contain any reference to any Turing machine so it cannot contain
    a self-reference. A Turing machine is not and does not contain any claim
    so it is not and does not contain any undecidability or inconsistency.

    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    This required establishing a new foundation
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